Thursday 5 May 2022

Following on from last summer’s collaboration of The Streets Where We Live with Falling Doors Theatre and Laurence Westgaph, a new walking tour and performance has been developed: Footsteps To Change: Abolition & Activism explores the city’s connection to abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the slave ship, Zong.

The walking tour will include three locations in the city centre that Frederick spent time in, after fleeing enslavement in America, and will explore sites connected to the Zong slave ship, which was built in Liverpool.

The performance directed by Nathan Powell fuses spoken word with music and features Ashleigh Nugent and Dorcas Seb. It sits alongside the critically acclaimed The Meaning of Zong by Giles Terera, which comes to the Playhouse for its only North West dates from 10 to 14 May 2022.

More on the walking tours here.

Watch The Meaning of Zong trailer here.